Blooming Now

Blooming Now

June 3, 2017 – We’re finished, totally done. The festival is over. Other than the occasional June-opening flowers on ‘Shiro-fugen’, there are no more blossoms. Except that Shirley Willard says a cherry scout’s job is never done. She found ‘Shiro-fugen’ flowers looking quite presentable on May 31 in Port Hardy, all the way up on Vancouver Island. We don’t have a Port Hardy “neighbourhood”, so she posted this and a few more photos in the Victoria, BC (on Vancouver Island) thread at http://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/victoria-bc-on-vancouver-island.48873/page-2#post-356563.

Blossom photos that have been featured here and on the festival blog are being collected in our Blossoms Photo Gallery (you can navigate to it from the About pages). Photo names have the date, location, cultivar and photographer name. The Photo Gallery page also has albums of Favourite Streets and Parks, photos that have appeared on this Blooming Now page from this and previous years.

You can amuse yourself on our festival map checking out locations of trees we know in your neighbourhood. You can even practice trying to recognize the different cultivars just by their leaves and tree shape, then check them on the map to see what we think they are.

Festival Favourites in bloom

Just one, and we’re cheating – this is on Vancouver Island. Red markers on our festival map show all our favourite locations. Have a look at what our scouts posted in our Neighbourhood Blogs.​​​​

Port Hardy ‘Shiro-fugen’

Seriously, we’re finished in Vancouver; this is in Port Hardy
Bloom Dates: photo is from May 31